Gov. Holcomb Coes to Washington in its
Interest.
ADVISES MUSTERING OUT.
Step* to Be Taken Also to Secure a
Prompt Settlement of the Claim* of
Nebraska Against the General Govern
ment.
Lincoln dispatch: Governor Hol
comb left last night for Washington,
D. C., where he will give his personal
attention with Colonel Stark to secur
ing a prompt settlement of the claims
of the state against the general gov
ernment on account of the mobiliza
tion of troops in Nebraska for enlist
ment in the volunteer service. He will
also urge on the president the advisa
bility of returning the Third regiment
to Nebraska to be mustered out of the
service.
The governor Is impelled to this ac
tion on account of the alarming in
crease In sickness In the regiment, the
abnormal death rate, and at the re
quest of many hundreds of the rela
tives and friends of the enlisted men.
Letters from the regiment Indicate that
more than nine-tenths of the private
soldiers are anxious to he mustered
out, having enlisted for the war with
Spain, and not for police duty in time
of peace.
The condition of the regiment has
been made known to the governor each
day through the reports of Colonel
Bryan, made In compliance with a re
quest for this information made by
the adjutant general to the command
ing officers of both the Second and the
Third on August 19.
The first dally sick report from the
Third was for August 20, just one
month ago. This showed that there
were twenty-one sick men in hospital
and twenty-six sick In quarters at that
time. The report for September 20
w:\s received today, snd this shows
that there were today 127 sick In hos
pital and 176 sick In quarters, a total
of 303.
The report does not Include the
eighty-one men who were sent home
on the hospital train last wreek, nor
those who are absent on sick leave or
furlough, and who left at other times.
The last list is estimated to include
about twenty-five or thirty names. If
this is near correct, there are now in
hospital or otherwise unfit for duty
by reason of sickness over 400 out
of a total of 1,328 men and officers in
the regiment originally.
The death list of this regiment al
ready Includes nine names.
Second Nobrunka Hoy*.
These are quiet days in old Fort
Omaha, writes a correspondent, as so
many of the boys are absent. For
those who are here, whether officers
or men, there is plenty of work. The
officers are busy striving to straighten
out their records and account for the
men who were sent home on sick fur
loughs preparatory to the final muster.
It seems to be the general Impression
now that the regiment will really be
mustered out when the boys return
from their furloughs, October 10. Two
days after that date the boys are ex
pected to participate with the Twenty
second United States Infantry in the
great peace jubilee. These two regi
ments promise to attract much atten
tion then. The Twenty-second re
turned with eleven officers and 178 men
out of 510 which left here less than
five months ago. Those w. o returned
look worn and weak from disease, and
the regiment is but a ghost of itself.
When they march down Farn.am street,
if they do, they will attract much at
tention. Of course the Second Ne
braska volunteers will be there. It is
expected that they will be in good con
dition, as those who are ill will have
recovered and the entire regiment is
expected to be in line.
Wants to Find His Brothers.
William Kealey of Edgar, Clay coun
ty, has written the governor and asked
the latter to assist him in finding his
two younger brothers, Try and Giobey.
,Tho story, as told by the letter, is
that in 1885 the three boys, William,
6 years old, and Try and Uibbey, at
that time 4 and 2 years respectively,
were sent to the home for the friend
less at Lincoln. In a short time Will
iam was taken out of the institution
by a Mrs. Kilpatrick, and from that
time he has never been able to hear
from his brothers or get any informa
tion that would satisfy him as to what
became of them. He says that officers
of the home have brought only the
answer that no trace had been kept of
the children. He asks the governor,
if possible, to help him in his quest.
Thirteen Have Died.
Two more deaths have been reported
In the Second Nebraska volunteers.
The first was Private Johnson, of G
company. Private Paul Jenkins, of
company A, died in Leiter hospital at
Chickamauga. Two more are expected
to Join the innumerable caravan from
the hospital at Fort Crook very soon.
Eighteen are sick there yet, and six
teen will recover. One or two are ex
pected to die in the Omaha city hos
pitals. The death rate has been very
low in the Second. Thirteen men out
of 1,323 officers and men does not form
a high percentage. It is. perhaps, the
smallest number of any regiment in
the service.
Many of the boys who are away on
sick furloughs are writing in regarding
them. Some are reporting for duty,
but the majority are taking extensions.
Arrentpd on n Serious Charge.
Albert Herman, a farmer living six
miles southeast of Columbus, near the
Colfax county line, came in and caused
the arrest of Charles Booth, a young
man who had been working for him,
on the charge of adultery. He alleges
the act was committed with Mrs. Her
man. Booth was arraigned before
County Judge Robinson, and the case
continued. His bond was fixed at |500,
In default of which he was committed
to Jail. None of the parties are over
30 years of age.
The whist club of Hastings has been
reorganized.
l ook Out for the Hvlndltn.
Ashland dispatch: 'I he principal
subject of conversation on the street
today is the collapse of the “flour bin”
scheme. The flrst step had been com
pleted and all the preliminary work
done, but the plan was punctured be
fore it reached completion, and the
persons managing it left hastily on the
midnight train last night. About two
months ago two very smooth young
gentlement, Messrs. Borders and Braw
ley. came to Ashland and made the
acquaintance of the business men, rep
resenting that they Intended to remain
some months and canvass the country
for a patent flour bln and sifter com
bined. They boarded at the best hotel,
hired livery teams and canvassed the
town and country for orders. They
agreed. It is alleged, to take any kind
of produce or goods if they could make
a sale, the purchaser signing a contract,
to take the flour bln about the 1st of
October. They took about four hun
dred orders at >5.50 each.
Last week they hired an office^ fur
nished it and a new man appeared
whose duty was evidently to bring the
scheme to a climax. Substantial farm
ers who had sons were brought Into
the cfllre or visited with the purpose
of in: ‘resting them. They were shown
the vast number of orders that had
easily been taken in so short a time,
and the great profit, there could not
fail to be in it. Propositions were
then made to sell territory, and a num
ber of men were already on the string.
It was working finely, many of the
business men, however, suspicions of
the whole thing and did not believe
it legitimate. Within the last day or
two some letters from Washington.
Kan., were received by residents of
Ashland describing a great scheme
that had been worked In that locality
by flour bin men during the past
spring. They claimed it was the same
two men, Messrs. Borders anl Brawlcy,
and they were looking for them.
Hog Cholera In Nebraska.
Columbus dispatch: The old time
hog cholera has again made its appear
ance in Platte county, O. D. Butler, a
farmer living within a few miles of
town, has lost some forty head re
cently, and he says it afreets both the
old hogs and the pigs, and no remedy
seems to check its ravages. Several
others have lost some, but not in
such numbers as Mr. Butler. Those
who have seen the hogs say it is the
real old thing.
About two weeks ago John Foreman,
a farmer living in Burrows township,
had all of his stacks destroyed by fire
Just after he had commenced thrashing.
He only saved about forty bushels of
oats, which they had Just thrashed.
The fire caught by sparks from the en
gine. He at once brought suit against
the owners of the machine—Stlneholz
& Pettcrs—for the amount of his loss,
and yesterday in Justice Fuller's court
recovered a Judgment for the full
amount, It Is believed that the Judg
ment will stand, and that no appeal
will be taken.
Something over two years ago
George Smith of this cry run a cat
fish horn into the bottom of his right
foot. Physicians at the time removed
what they thought to be the bone, but
the foot always gave him trouble, and
at times he could scarcely walk. Yes
terday he went to a physic.an and ap
plied the X-rays to the foot and the
bone was plainly visible. An incision
was made and the bone removed, which
was Just one and a quarter inches in
length. He thinks he will have no
further trouble.
A Itoy in the )-enitentlary.
Charles Kennedy, a 15-year-old boy,
was received at the penitentiary last
week, having been sent up by the dis
trict court of Gage county for eighteen
months for horse stealing. It seems
that the boy, who is very slow witted,
fell in with a traveler, who has since
turned out to be an exconvict from
Missouri. The man had a horse he
was driving, and seeing a better one in
a pasture near the road, made the ex
change without consulting the owner
of the other horse. When captured
neither the man nor the boy made any
defense, and they pleaded guilty at
the trial. The boy seems to be inof
fensive, and much surprise is ex
pressed at the Gage county authorities
sending him to the penitentiary instead
of to the reform school, and it is prob
able that an effort will at once be made
to have the sentence commuted. The
boy ha3 relatives at Hastings, Beatrice
jailBi am iu 3uiavt Xuo aauMBj puu
place is his grandfather. L. M. Ken
nedy, who has several times been an
inmate of the asylum.
Murder Over tho Honndary Line
Alliance dispatch: Trouble of long
standing culminated in the murder ot
N. L. Slyvester, in Sheridan county,
twenty miles northeast of this city,
last evening, death resulting instantly
from a Winchester bullet fired by
John Krause. Tho fatal quarrel was
the result of a dispute over the bound
ary line across a hay meadow, Sylves
ter coming on the Krause side and re
fusing to quit.
Krause started! for Rushville this
morning to give himself up and the
body of Sylvester lies where it fell,
awaiting the arrival of the coroner.
Slyvester's reputation, it is alleged,
is not the best, and as he is said to
have made threats against Krause,
public sentiment seems to excuse the
latter.
Inatantly Killed.
Joseph Kompost, a young Bohemian
farmer, living south of Crete, was in
stantly killed by falling into the cylin
der of a thrashing machine while feed
ing it. The whole left side of the body
was terribly larerated. Deceased was
a member of the Z. C. B. J., a benevo
lent Bohemian society, under whos8
auspices the funeral took place.
Note*.
Three grandchildren were born In
the family of a Mapleton man within
one week.
The accidental discharge of a shot
gun will very likely end the life of
Earl Mann, the delivery boy for the
Pearl laundry of York. Mann, in com
pany with three other young men, was
hunting. On their way home they
hailed a handcar coming in on the Elk
horn railroad. While Mann was stand
ing on the car the hammer of the shot
gun struck on the edge. Part of the
abdomen was carried away.
Government war Balloons.
Daily Ascensions at the Trans=Mis=
sissippi Exposition Grounds.
Among the many Interesting feat
ures of the United States government’s
exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Ex
position at Omaha, none is attracting
greater attention than the war bal
loons. Besides the monster captive
balloon which was used by the Ameri
can forces at Santiago, there are fcur
other large balloons, each with a ca
pacity of 21,000 cubic feet, sufficient
to carry three or four persons, and a
score of small signal balloons. In
charge of the balloons and the half
dozen carloads of apparatus accom
panying them are Captain A. Warren
Yancey and a detachment of twenty
feet an excellent view of the exposi
tion grounds, tho cities of Omaha and
Council DlufTs and the suroundlng
country is obtained.
A building forty feet square on the
ground and fifty feet high has been
erected on the north tract to house the
balloon overnight. It costs In tho
neighborhood of $80 to Inflate, and It
Is cheaper therefore to retain the gas
from day to day than to generate fresh
gas for every ascension. In order that
the gas may not be allowed to escape
It is necessary to protect the balloon
from the weather, for the varnished
silk of which It Is made. Is very quick
ly ruined when a little rain gota to It.
GOVERNMENT WAR nALLOON.
threo members of the United States
Volunteer Signal Corps, of whom about
one-half were engaged in the opera
tions before Santiago.
The big balloon used at Santiago Is
an object of Intense popular Interest.
One or other of the balloons makes
several ascensions dally from the ex
position grounds.
These balloons, as stated above, have
a capacity of 21,000 cubic feet of gas,
This is sufficient to raise about 1,800
pounds. The balloon itself, with the
car and ropes and cable, weighs In the
neighborhood of 1,200 pounds. Each
balloon can carry four persons of aver
age weight.
The balloons are equipped with com
plete telephonic and telegraphic ap
paratus, communication with the
ground being obtained by means of in
sulated wire paid out as the balloon
ascends. Captain Yancey has with
him at Omaha two coils of this wire,
each 2,500 feet long. The wire is flve
elghths of an inch In diameter, and
consists of twelve strands of copper.
It is used for the double purpose of
holding the balloon and of establish
ing telegraphic or telephonic communi
cation with the ground. The wire Is
w'ound on a reel, connected with brass
bushing and so arranged that the com
munication Is not interrupted as the
balloon ascends or descends. The
daily ascensions are made to about the
limit of one of these coils of wire, and
from a height of from 2,000 to 2,500
In addition to the quarter of a hun
dred balloons, largo and small, Cap
tain Yancey has with him at Omaha
two stationary generators and one por
table field generator and portable
boiler, two gasometers, one of which
was made in Omaha, and 250 tubes
each of which will hold about 150 cuulc
feet of gas compound.
Of almost equal Interest with the
balloon ascensions are the dally exhi
bitions of visual signaling which are
given by Captain Yancey's men.
Every member of the United States
Signal Corps is an expert slgnalist
either with the telegraph or the helio
graph or with the flags. The flag sig
naling, or wigwagging, as it Is tcrmeo,
is very Interesting to watch. The sig
nalmen are provided with small col
ored flags with which they do their
talking. A dip to the right or the left
or some combination of such move
ments represents each letter of the
alphabet in accordance with what Is
known as the Myereode. The two
squads of men are separated by the
lagoon at sufficient distance to prevent
any verbal communication, but near
enough for the public to watch both
operators at the same time. The ex
hibitions with the heliograph, or sig
naling by means of sun flashes, are
also of great popular Interest. It is
Interesting to note that both the wig
wagging, or the heliograph system of
signaling were derived from the In
dians.
INDIANS AT TIIK KXPOS1TION.
Graphic Account of the Nhmn Itnttlc In
Which Tory Enf[iit«.
Not less than 10,000 people witnessed
the sham battle between the Indiana
yesterday afternoon, saya the Omaha
Bee, and when it was over and the
dead and wounded carried away it was
pronounced a great success. It was
fought along substantially the same
lines as some of the others that have
been put on, and was carried out In
every detail.
The great fight of the afternoon was
started off by Captain fiercer march
ing all of his Indians up in front of the
reviewing stand. The first detachment
was composed of the Interpreters, who
clad In their new suits consisting of
brown corduroy trousers, blue flannel
shirts and light brown slouch hats
made a very neat appearance. Then
came the squaws of the different tribes,
each band coming up separately. They
In turn were followed by the Indians,
marching in the same order, after
which the horsemen appeared on the
scene, tribe after tribe riding up at
full gallop and yelling their war
whoops. Behind each band rode its
chle*, and as they reached the seats,
the name of the tribe as well as the
name of the leader was announced.
Old Geronlmo appeared to be the lion
of the occasion, and was cheered from
the time he started unti he halted his
animal in front of the stand. The old
man rode like a general, and evidently
appreciated the ovation, as he doffed
his hat and bowed as gracefully as a
Chesterfield. This part of the program
having been carried out, the Indians
filed off over the field toward the east
and back to the starting place, from
which the horsemen rode in a body,
yelling in a manner that made some of
the timid white people feel like tak
ing to the wood. After the sounds of
the yells had died away, a volley was
fired and everything was ready for the
fight.
As the story goen, a Sioux Indian,
Grass, had been oviv In the territory
of the Blackfeet trapping beaver, and
as the tribes were not on friendly
terms, he had been doomed to die a* 1
the stake, a slow fire doing the busi
ness. Of course this was simply the
play, and in order to carry It out there
had to be a battle.
After the parade the Sioux and their
allies, under command of Goes-to-War,
took up a position on the east side of
tho grounds, while the Blackfeet and
their allies, led by Big Brave, went out
into the space at the west end of the
grounds. Then everything was ready
for business. In from the west came
a little band of Indians leading a
horse, on which was mounted Mr.
Grass. He looked sad, and his every
action Indicated that he was ready to
expect almost anything. It was not
mort than a minute before 100 Indians,
painted and ornamented with feathers,
hustled in from the same direction as
came the men with tho Indian who
was to be tortured. They whooped
like mad, and one of their number,
Cut Nose, made a speech. He told a
tale of cruelty perpetrated by Grass,
and opined that he ought to die like a
dog. Grass smiled and told his captors
to do their worst, as be was ready to
die. Then some of the fellows who
were not singing war songs com
menced to gather grass and straw that
was lying conveniently around, wait
ing to be gathered. Grass was pulled
from his horse and roped to an electric
light pole. The next act in the war
drama was to tie him good and tight.
After that a circle was formed ubout
him and the war dance was put on
with a war song accompaniment.
About the time the Diackfeet were
ready to fire the straw around Grass'
feet a runner came in and reported
that two Sioux were out in the bush
taking observations. B.g Brave se
lected a dozen of his most trusty war
riors and sent them out to bring In
the two men that they might be
roasted with Grass. The Sioux got
wind of the proceedings and scudded
over the prairie, but one of them was
not swift enough and was captured
and scalped, while the other managed
to get back to his camp. \,hen the
scalp was brought In the Blackfeet and
their allies proceeded to have a jollfl
cation, and then started a Are around
Grass. Their fun, however, was short
lived, for about this time the Sioux
came upon them pell mell, firing into
their ranks and knocking out a dozen
of the best men. The Blackfeet were
routed and driven off, after which the
Sioux had their fun. They brought in
ten prisoners, and after releasing
Grass, bound then? all to the same elec
tric light pole. Then there was a
Sioux war song and a dance that went
with it, and for a time it looked as
though there was to b* a high time In
the camp for several men, and un
doubtedly there would have been had
not the Blackfeet gathered up a lot of
reinforcements and ronew-ed the at
tack. They came In like the wind and
engaged the Sioux. Thev had but one
motto, and that was: “When you see
a head hit it." The hitting process
worked with both sides, and for a
time it was hard to tell which side
would carry the day.
Will Work Next Week.
The president is making progress in
the matter of preparation of the com
mission for the investigation of the
conduct of the war, so far as It re
lates to the war department, says a
Washington dispatch, and he stated to
members of the cabinet today that ho
had so far completed the commission
that he had invited the members to
meet him for a conference at the
White House on Saturday next, with a
view to beginning their work next
week.
Seven of the nine members of the
body have definitely indicated their ac
ceptance of the president's invitation,
and he expressed himself today as be
ing very confident of being able to se
cure the services of the other two
gentlemen necessary to complete the
quota of nine by the time set for the
men who have been lnvitca to serve
conference. The names of the new
men who have been invited to serve
were not given out.
Safe and Express Car Shattered
By Dynamite.
WAS A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
The Wrecked Car Darned—Kobbera
Tried to Cut TeleRraph Wire* to Pre
vent the Mending Out of the Notifica
tion to the Authorities.
" Kansas Citv, Mo., Sept. 2fi.—The
dull explosion that wits heard in the
southwestern part of the city last
night was the work of the “quail
hunters.” It was not much after 10
o’clock when the "quail hunters" dy
namited the express car of a south
bound Missouri Pacific train a few
miles beyond Leeds and eight miles
from Kansas City. That they did not
blow off their own feathers was a
wonder, for tho car was razed, the
jyreat iron safe was shattered and, for
a distance of two miles, waybills and
papers and fragments of baggago were
scattered along tho track. The party
of masked “quail hunters," thinking
they had cut the telegraph wires to
Kansas City, used no stint in the ap
plication of dynamite. They left a
card with the express mossenger stat
ing that the supply of quails was good.
Chief Hayes has in his possession
the only tangible clue of tho men who
did the work. It is a card handed to
Express Messenger E. N. Hills by one
of the robbers after they had finished.
On one sldo is printed: “Vote for Rob
ert W. Grocn, Republican nominee for
county collector of Jack3on county.”
On tho reverse side this is printed with
a dull lead pencil:
: We. tho masked knights of tho road. :
: robbed the M. P. train nt tho Holt line :
; Junction to-night. Tho supply of uuulls :
: was seed. With much love we remain, ;
: John Kennedy,
: him. Hr Ait. :
: '.'’fJU'. Hill andchson,
: *■’ ham brown, :
: Jim Redmond.
The Pacific Express company do
clarcs it lost nothing except smashed
express matter.
The whole alfair took only a few
minutes. At 9:40 o'clock the Wichita
Little Hock express stopped at the
Pittsburg A Gulf junction, fewer than
eight miles south of Kansas City, and
in thirty minutes the sound of the ex
plosion was heard in the city.
Word of the hold-up reached police
headquarters and the county marshal's
otlice about the same time, between
10:30 o'clock and H o'clock.
For two hours Deputy Marshals Wil
son, Taylor and Leahy restlessly in
habited the darkness at Second and
Grand avenue, waiting for the Mis
souri Pacific train to go to the scene.
D. M. llisey, the Pittsburg A Gulf
operator at Dodson, said:
“It was just before the Missouri Pa
cific No. 5 was duo,” he said, “that
they came in. lfy they I mean the tall
man and tho short man. The short
man had a black mask over his fuce.
lie shoved a Winchester into my stom
ach and ordered me to throw up my
hands. The tall man had a cloth tied
over his face. The mask on the short
man slipped down and I saw his nose
and the upper part of his face. He bad
a big, rod nose.
“The tall man had a revolver and a
pair of wire pliers. lie tried to cut the
switchboard with his revolver when he
was unable to cut the cables.”
1 To appreciate the scene it should be
understood that the little telegraph
room is just big enough to contain
three men and a gun.
“Just then the train crossed the
trestle, and, as it always does, stop
ped,” continued Hisey. “The short
man shoved me along at the muzzle of
the Winchester, down the track, to
the train. I noticed that the mouth
piece of his mask was down over his
chin. Around the engine were several
men with black masks. They had the
engineer and fireman down from the
engine. They swore horribly. I
think I saw seven of them. There was
a shot. I was ordered, along with the
engineer, to uncouple tho engine and
express car. Wo complied. Did we
comply quickly? You bet wo did.
Then they said to us:
“ ‘Get on the train and stay on
there or we'll kill yon.’
Then they whistled for a flagman
and went off with the engine. About
twenty minutcB afterward we heard a
tremendous explosion. The express
messenger came running back, nnd
said tho express car had been blown
up. I began fixing my instruments
and sent a message to Kansas City.
The big fellow who tried to cut off
telegraph communication was a lob
ster nnd didn't know how to do it.”
The engine of the relief train push
ed the robbed and cnginelcss express
car ahead, for it was impossible to
pass it. It held the track. It was a
slow, noisy procession. About one
half mile further on the caravan of
coaches came upon a strange scene.
The conductor of the ill-fated train,
Hans Carr, several deputy marshals
and a number of negroes with guns,
were delving in a mass of debris by tho
track side in the weird torchlight,
liroken trunks, women’s finery, frag
ments of car roofs, a bicycle, men's
underclothing, blackened valises and
a pulpy mass of a hundred different
things were piled and scattered in the
ditch along the left hand tide of the
track. The telegraph wires were fes
tooned with wreckage. Hero the ex
press car had been blown up, but
where was the car?
“We’re from the coal camp," said
the armed negroes. “We heard the
explosion and camo over to find out
about it.”
The railway and expross officials fell
to heaving the fragments of baggage
and express matter into the empty
baggage car brought with the relief
train.
“I was working away," said Hills, a
Smooth faced, nervous young man,
“when I felt that my car was starting
without the rest of tho train. I looked
out and saw some figures of men. I
realized it was a hold-up and ducked
in. Then they catne to the side door
and beat on it with their guns.
‘“Let us in or we'll blow you up!*
they said.”
“Where was your riot gun?” asked
Superintendent Moore.
“I got a shell jammed in it,” cx
plained Hills.
“And you let them in?"
“To he plain about it,” replied Hills
to his chief, “I didn't feel justified in
losing my life. 1 had no chance to
put up a fight. I opened the door and
three got in. They were masked and
carried sacks over their arms. One
man got the drop on me. They cursed
me and asked how much money there
was in the safo. I lied to them good
and plenty. They didn't ask me for
the combination of the through safe
because they knew I didn't have It.
We had a good deal of talk. The
mask of the man with the Winchester
slipped and I tried to get a good look
at him. Quick as a flash he hit me on
the head with the but of his revolvor.
“Meanwhile we were moving away.
They put seven sticks of dynamite on
top of the safe, set tho small portable
safe, tho local safo which I showed
them was empty, on top of tho dyna
mite. The car stopped and they set a
fuse. 1 saw a match struck. They
jumped out leaving me in the car.
“ 'You stay and see how it goes!’
they told me.
“It was an awful moment. I begged
for my life. I pleaded with them and
they let me jumpdown. We all moved
up on tho othor side of the engine. It
seemed an age and there was no ex
plosion. They exclaimed that the fuse
had gone out. I was afraid they
would order me to go inside to inves
tigate. Instead they told me to un
couple tho car from tho engine. Just
as I was doing it there was a flash
and roar. It seemed to mo I was with
in a foot of it! I fell down.
" ‘Git!’ somebody said, and I got,
down the track I”
At a point which the railway men
said was about three and ono-half
miles beyond tho junction, burned a
fitful, sullen fire. It was tho wrecked
express car and tho killed engine.
What a wreck it was. The car was
literally razed to the flat car. Twisted
irons, and a fiat, tangled mass of bag
gage, express matter and timbers
burned like a gigantic spent fire
cracker or a huge bit of “punk.” On
the left sido of tho wreck, on the
ground, lay the great iron safe. It's
top was stove in and it was shattered
as if riddled by a 13-inch shell. The
crowds pulled out lumps of the fire
proof cement lining as mementoes.
When the train crew came up to the
wreck they found it burning fiercely
and pulled off a good deal of debris to
stop tho fire. The big safe hung on
one sido by its iron stanchions and the
train crew and section men pushed it
off.
“If there was anything in that
safe,” said Superintendent Moore of tho
i’aoific express, “it was blown into
smithereens! The robbers did not get
a cent!”
LITTLE SPENT ON RELIGION.
Th» Porto Kloann, In Contmt to other
Spanish Cathollca, Are Not Zeelooa,
Wasuinoton, Sept. 26.—Major Gene
ral WWaon, in a report to the War De
partment, submits the information
gathered by Captain Gardiner and his
staff in Porto Itico. The educational,
political, religious and financial condi
tions of the island are dealt with at
length. The report will be valuable
in determining the form of govern
ment best suited for the island. He
states that, while a large majority of
the, Porto Ricans are Catholics by pro
fession, they are not especially zealous
as religionists. He places the number
of priests at 240 and the annual cost
to the public treasury for their sup
port at about $120,000 in American
money.
Ha Started si Station Agent.
New Yoim, Sept. 26. — John M.
Toucey, formerly general manager of
the New York Central railroad, died
at his home at Garrison-on-the-Hudson
late last night. Mr. Touccy was born
in 132*. He began his career as sta
tion agent of tho Naugatuck railroad
at Newton, Conn. In 1655 he obtained
a liko position with the Hudson river
railroad, and from that time until tho
day of his death remained in the em
ploy of tho Hudson River Railroad
company, or its successor, the New
York Central & Hudson IUvcr Railroad
company.
A New Polnonail Candy Case.
Foiit Worth, Texas, Sept. 26.—An
attempt was made to murder I)r. W.
1). Mason, a dentist of this city, by
poisoning him. He received through
tho muils a small package of stick
candy, of which he ate a small amount.
Ilefore he reached home ho was in a
precarious condition. A physician
pronounced it a case of poisoning. It
was discovered the candy had been
gummed over with "rough on rats.”
Chicago a. Winter Quartern.
Ciiicaoo, Sept. 20.—Colonel Jones,
chief quartermaster of the Department
of the Lakes, has received a telegram
from Quartermaster General Luding
ton, requesting information as to
available quarters for 30,000 men. Cap
tain l’almer, assistant quartermaster,
states that it is inteuded to quarter
troops in New York, Philadelphia,
San Francisco and other large cities.
A Sino.ooo Fire In South Dakota,
Edge wood, S. D., Sept 26.—Fire de
stroyed an entire block of business
buildings last Dight A gale waa
blowing and the fire thraoianed tho
whole town. Estimated loss 9150,000)
partially insured.